Don’t Stay Home – Episode 85

Episode 85 features Jolene Bower who hails from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Jolene works in purchasing for an oil and gas company, and is also in university, studying psychology. She starts graduate school next fall to study speech language pathology.

Jolene talks about why she wants to become a speech therapist, and therapy experiences she has had. We talk about fluency shaping, and how hard it can be sometimes to transfer those skills into “real life” experiences.

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3 Responses to "Don’t Stay Home – Episode 85"

Hallo Jolene! I’ll only say, that your stuttering, together with your voice, is of a sort, which calms the listener down and let him hear what you really say. That’s my opinion anyway. Very good. Bengt

Before I pen down this comment, I’d just like to say that it feels good to tune into your podcasts once again, Pam.

Not only was this an honest share on Jolene’s part, I can also say that I relate to her to a great extent. Deciding to switch to speech pathology, recognizing the difficulty in ‘transferring’ fluency skills and yet appreciating its power to maintain a stronger locus of control really made me smile, picturing how I deal with my own stutter.

Great podcast! Probably we guys could meet up one day considering CA is not really far away! *As my friends and I currently make plans to party up Montreal sometime this summer lol!!*